David Stockdale believes an upturn in fortunes isn’t far away for Birmingham City and hopes that the Blues fans can continue getting behind the team in the meantime.

Blues suffered their fifth defeat in seven matches with the narrow 1-0 defeat at Fulham on Saturday, a game where they passed up a wonderful chance to rescue a result when Jeremie Boga fired a penalty over the bar.

It’s a torrid run of form that has left Blues in the bottom three, four points adrift of 20th placed Barnsley and with a crucial fixture with QPR to coming this weekend.

Stockdale has only been back for three games after a lay-off of more than two months, and has conceded as many goals in that time.

He believes Blues are edging closer to some much needed form.

“Our team spirit is coming on more and you can hear the fans willing us to come a do something, a bit of magic,” Stockdale told bcfc.com .